Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design

by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Elizabeth Eustis, John Bidwell

The Morgan Library & Museum has assembled an impressive array of trend-setting texts and outstanding works of art that reveal the origins and impact of the stylistic innovations of the Romantic Garden, in a broad cultural context, roughly from 1700 to 1900. This book provides a compelling overview of these groundbreaking ideas and shows how they were implemented in private estates and public parks in England, France, Germany, and America.

Genres: Gardening

197 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2010

Reviews

[amy ☕️]

Romantic gardens>>>> Neoclassical gardens

You know a literary movement is fire when it has an accompanying landscape style :)

I read this for a paper and barely used anything from it, BUT it was a great informational read.

[Godine Publisher & Black Sparrow Press]

In this book, containing a lengthy introductory essay on the nature of Romanticism, the authors demonstrate, through drawings and designs, watercolors, and engravings, a narrative of the course of Romanticism in Europe and America, where the landscape ideals of the creators of private gardens were translated into the designs for public parks. Here, illustrated in full color and described in detail, are the books, the essays, the prints, and the manuscripts that served as core documents of the Romantic Movement. In this impressive survey, Godine has joined with the Morgan Library and Museum and the Foundation for Landscape Studies to assemble a splendid array of seminal texts alongside outstanding works of art. The result is a scholarly and accessible book that reveals and illuminates the origins and impact of the movement that dominated both Europe and America between 1700 and 1900 in the realm of the garden.